EVENTS

A poll…by AXE? Really?

This was entirely predictable. Axe, the deodorant company with the really horrible sexist ads, is doing something admirable, sponsoring a contest to send people to a space camp in Florida. They’re doing it with a poll, unfortunately (please, people, just stop! Popularity contests are not measures of merit!), and the one woman in the Malaysian contest got a flood of sexist remarks — tampon jokes and that sort of thing. Apparently, having human physiology disqualifies you from being an astronaut. Clearly these arguments are being made by anti-human robots! Someone needs to point out that all of the contestants poop and pee and sweat and drool and sneeze, and some of them even ejaculate.

You know what to do. Vote (on Facebook, which means a lot of you won’t be able to). The backlash is already favoring Roshini Muniam (Rose), so I think you’ll be just adding the final fillip, but that’s OK.

@Lars #3: The plan, as with all special offers, polls, etc. through Facebook is to get you to give them permission to harvest your user data to use for market research and targeted advertising. Access to one’s account name is the only thing they need to verify identity and prevent double-voting; treat anything else with intense suspicion. (Sadly, I was not able to play the fun-sounding alien-language-decoding (letter substitution) puzzles on the Futurama page, because Comedy Central wanted access to gads of my personal info. Asshats.)

I created a FB account just so I could vote for Rose. Apparently, one may vote every hour, so I’ll be voting for her a few more times today, and if I remember, a few times every day until the contest closes.

Isn’t it Dove who does those incredibly stupid ads for men, saying that ‘man hide’ is oh so special, blah blah blah?

I believe so.

I can’t stand Axe. Not only do they have the jaw droppingly sexist commercials that everyone has already complained about, their deodorant stinks. One of my sister’s former boyfriends left a container in my car after I gave them a lift and I opened it and immediately regretted having done so. I can’t imagine why anyone would voluntarily wear it.

HOW TO USE FACEBOOK TO VOTE
1. Create fake facebook account using “realish” name and working email address that isn’t you*
2. DO NOT friend anyone
3. Sign up to vote
4. Friends? Sure, you can access my “friends” list.
5. Vote. Every hour